Fierce Healthcare June 21, 2024
There is an old saying that if you do not make time for your wellness, you will be forced to make time for your illness. This could be the epitaph on the tombstone of the American healthcare system. We’ve neglected the fundamental thing that would transform American healthcare into an affordable system for better health: primary care.
Every single formula for improving health includes keeping patients well, yet the American healthcare industry perversely profits most when we are sick. If we follow the money, we see that hospital systems have gorged themselves on the broken economics of U.S. healthcare. Meanwhile, primary care has been disempowered, held in the vise grip of an industry designed to make them fail on purpose....